Comsys is an active solution recommender of Fusion-io technology. We have seen staggering performance benefits to customers who adopted this technology in terms of SAN IO performance and we are actively working to implement Fusion-io technology into several other customer sites at the moment.

So what is Fusion-io?

Fusion-io is a new storage memory platform that significantly improves the processing capabilities within a data center by moving process-critical, or active data closer to the CPU where it is processed. Called shared data decentralization, this significantly reduces latency while increasing data center efficiency. Fusion’s integrated hardware and software solutions leverage non-volatile memory for enterprise-grade performance, reliability, availability and manageability.

Fusion was founded to address the problem that mechanical storage architectures do not keep pace with advances in digital processing power. This meant that despite major advances in technology, data processing was limited to the speed of legacy storage infrastructures. Without a solution designed to maximize their capabilities, modern CPUs sit idle while they wait for data to process.

Fusion-io solves the data supply problem with a new purpose-built solution. By combining hardware and software to develop a reliable storage memory platform, Fusion-io gives servers native access to data to accelerate enterprise databases and applications. This allows enterprises to significantly reduce complex and expensive high performance storage, high performance networking, and memory-rich servers. In addition to accelerating performance, Fusion’s storage memory platform also reduces energy consumption and total cost of ownership.

Fusion's ioMemory modules are one of the industry’s most efficient and cost effective resources for processing large amounts of data very quickly. One ioMemory module contains 100 times the capacity density of dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, to provide applications fully scalable memory for accelerating throughput and reducing latency while driving higher performance density and efficiency in application server platforms.

Fusion’s Virtual Storage Layer  (VSL) software allows ioMemory to operate as a storage memory tier within the enterprise server to provide servers direct access to data. Fusion’s directCache software extends the ioMemory platform and permits interoperability with traditional direct-attached, network-attached, storage area network-attached and appliance-attached backend storage systems. ioSphere is a suite of management software purpose-built for Fusion’s storage memory infrastructure and designed around Fusion’s data decentralization platform.

For more detailed information on each particular Fusion product and some case studies, please visit www.fusionio.com